News Carver

William "News" Carver (12 September 1868-2 April 1901) was an American outlaw who was a member of the Hole in the Wall Gang of the OId West.

Biography
William Carver was born on 12 September 1868 in Coryell County, Texas, and he married the aunt of future outlaw Laura Bullion. When she died six months after their marriage of fever, Carver had a relationship with Josie Bassett, and then with Laura Bullion. In 1896 he rode with Black Jack Ketchum's gang in New Mexico, but after a failed robbery he joined the Hole in the Wall Gang of Butch Cassidy. He gained the nickname "News" from his love of reading about himself in the news, and he was one of the main members of Butch Cassidy's group. In 1898 he bet on Cassidy in a fight with fellow gang member Harvey Logan when Logan attempted to take power from Cassidy as the gang's new leader.

Carver took part in their robberies of the Overland Flyer train and other Union Pacific railroad trains, but in 1901 he was tracked down alongside associate George Kilpatrick by sheriffs who believed that he was responsible for the murder of Oliver Thornton. At the Jack Owens Bakery in Sonora, Texas on 2 April 1901, Carver was shot six times and killed before he could get his gun out to react to the sheriffs.